Chapter 953
Although Evenson boasted to the twins about the sea, saying that at this juncture, the toads in the river are rarer than the agents who can absorb them, but it is difficult to find a thousand troops.
Now the Aegis and agents who have lost their jobs and positions are a big deal, but most of them are mid-level agents and low-level agents, and Evenson's demand for them is not very high, because these people can be replaced at any time, and without them, they can recruit others, and it is not impossible to train themselves.
What Evenson really needs now is a person who can command the overall situation, has a wealth of experience and qualifications, and can be in charge of a large secret service system, that is, a senior agent.
And after this incident, the senior agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. are really dead and fleeing, and most of them are still alive Hydra, which is already on the wanted list of the US government. So there's really not much to choose for Evenson.
Originally, the most suitable for the requirements was Peggy Carter, who is the most qualified agent in the existing position, and the career of the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. for decades was not given in vain, and he also experienced the special period of the Cold War, and also experienced the special transformation of the Science Strategy Corps into a world-class S.H.I.E.L.D., and his ability is absolutely leveraged.
But the falling flowers are intentionally ruthless, and people may not be willing to do it. In addition, Peggy Carter can definitely be called a big hero, has his own opinions, has his own ideas, does not blindly follow numerology, and has a strong ability to discern many things, although Evenson once successfully deceived her, but it was entirely because of the asymmetry of information. But once she is in command of the overall situation, and he knows all the details, he can't be bluffed!
Coupled with her relationship with Captain America and her family relationship with Tony Stark, she may not support Evenson's next plan.
The second is Maria Hill, but now that she has accepted Tony Stark's offer, it is more realistic to hope that the director of the CIA will jump ship if she wants to poach her from Stark Enterprises. And even if there was no such thing, Evenson would not dare to use her.
Maria Hill may have had a slight disagreement with Nick Fury before, and had been secretly monitored by the committee, but now she can be considered a diehard loyalist of Nick Fury. She has now joined the Stark Group, in fact, it is not simply to protect herself, but she should have accepted Nick Fury's secret order, and the purpose is very simple, that is, to keep an eye on the Avengers, after this group of superheroes who think simply and do things recklessly and even have some brains, after causing some big trouble, Nick Fury can find a way to get to the bottom of it.
So you can't recruit such people, and you can't recruit them. Hydra will be stiff, S.H.I.E.L.D. may not borrow the corpse to resurrect the soul, Evenson is still afraid that that day Maria Hill will suddenly send a message, S.H.I.E.L.D. will come out of the shadows to welcome the light, long live freedom and peace, where can I reason about this.
And among the rest of the people, Evenson and Coulson's personalities don't fit that well, and this guy is even more difficult than Peggy Carter. Coulson is simply a shrunken version of Nick Fury, he is an idealist like Nick Fury, but although Nick Fury is idealistic in big goals, he absolutely follows pragmatism when doing things, but Coulson will bring idealism into action.
Such a person, don't lie to him, even if he really puts the facts in front of him, he will still do things according to the ideals in his heart, disobey orders and follow his instincts, this kind of thing Coulson has not done, and even said that the reason why he can get Nick Fury's favor is because he has done such a thing.
So overall, Coulson is a good friend and a good person, but don't you think it's a weird situation for a master to work with a good guy?
Besides, I still expect this idealistic good old man to continue to carry the banner of S.H.I.E.L.D. to stir up trouble outside and embarrass the US government.
Therefore, the only suitable candidate is Victoria Hand. She has no faction in S.H.I.E.L.D., neither Hydra nor Nick Fury's henchman, but she can be promoted all the way to an eighth-level agent, which shows that she is outstanding.
And this person is simply disciplined to the point of rigidity, almost will not bring personal feelings into the task, will never give up what should be fought for, and will never be relentless when he should give up. She had sent Ward and Fetz deep into the territory of the rebels in Eastern Europe to carry out sabotage operations, but for the success and discipline of the mission, she did not send reinforcements as promised in advance, and the two guys were almost killed. For this reason, she also had a conflict with Coulson.
This style and personality is exactly what Evenson needs, and he is simply a perfect tool man.
And the most important thing is that Victoria Hand should have despaired of S.H.I.E.L.D. Just like in the early days of Project Insight, she had mistaken Evenson for Hydra, so she ran over with several of her men strapped to nerve gas, intending to die as soon as Evenson confessed.
It was a dozen cans of nerve gas, and she didn't care at all about how many civilian casualties would be caused by the leakage of these poison gases, and the despair in her heart was evident from the fact that an agent who had always been rigid and disciplined had made such a crazy move.
Although she launched a series of actions after the fall of S.H.I.E.L.D., these actions were not so much to save S.H.I.E.L.D. as she was to stop Hydra. Such a person who is full of despair in his heart can be used perfectly with a little guidance.
Evenson had already arranged for Bengaluru to pick her up, and had the rare grace to approve the departure of a fuel-guzzling transport ship. But I shouldn't be able to meet her so soon, after all, there are still a lot of procedures to go, and it will take time to get the order of amnesty for her from the US government, but it shouldn't be too long.
Because just after Victoria Hand boarded the transport, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s prison freezer collapsed and the world became even more chaotic.
On that plane, Ward had the pistol that Victoria had given him, and the others were defenseless against him, so he easily got his hands on it, killing the other escorts and rescuing John Garrett.
This is actually a very stupid choice, because now anyone with a discerning eye can see that Hydra Road is a group of people, and Ward's smartest choice now should be to follow Victoria's arrangement, shoot Garrett to death with one shot, kill people and kill without proof, his true identity will be covered up forever, he can continue to return to Coulson's side as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, even if he is arrested by the U.S. government in the end, he has no guilt in fighting.
But who made him not care much about Hydra, he was not laughing at Hydra but John Garrett himself, because this guy was not just a former custodian and guide to him, but more like a father, of course, an adoptive father. Alas, so what is wrong with being a big filial son and practicing filial piety directly on the spot, you have to jump into this big pit.
Next, they changed planes, and John Garrett gathered his other men. Although Pierce had previously identified John Garrett as a traitor, for the sake of prudence, Pierce had cut off all the people on Garrett's entire line and was going to dispose of them all at once after the fact, so these people didn't know that these changes were still loyal to John Garrett.
And Pierce didn't expect that he died first, and what he didn't expect was that his move would save John Garrett, and now in the Snake Shield Bureau, Garrett's line has the greatest strength in the complete organization, which is really a trick.
Ward helped Garrett to the entrance of the cold room, still holding a sign from a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, saying that he had been ordered by Victoria Hand to escort the prisoner, hoping to trick the guards here into opening the door.
But the two guards guarding the door are simply the same character as Victoria, that is, they don't say anything about face at all, they don't mean that they have received orders, and they can only open the door if Victoria Hand comes in person, and no one else is good.
Ward anxiously said to the two first people through the bulletproof glass door, "Hand's agent has been arrested by the U.S. government on the way here, she can't come here, and you see this guy is dying now, he needs medical assistance." ”
As he spoke, Ward shoved Garrett, who was half-dead, pale and sweating, forward, so that the two guards could see his face clearly. And Garrett really didn't pretend to be like this, Melinda used the fire mark that hellfire put on him, tormenting him all the time.
The pain was beyond his comprehension, and he tried to numb himself, but even the numb part of his body was still in pain, and he let Ward knock himself out on the head, but even in his coma, he could still feel the burning pain. In the end, he even used a knife to cut off all the skin of that piece, but that only made it more painful. The bloody wound healed quickly, but it was still the scorched mark and the burning pain. If he hadn't had a trace of thought in his heart, he might have already committed suicide by swallowing a gun to seek relief.
It was precisely because of this pain that he canceled his plan to go to Cuba to rest and recuperate first, and launched a prison robbery of the cold room in advance. Everything needs to be done in advance, all plans must be carried out as soon as possible, and as long as your plan is successful, you must free yourself from this pain.
The two guards, however, were indifferent to John Garrett's painful appearance. He's not going to die! S.H.I.E.L.D. has become like this, and we all want to activate the final agreement and execute all the dangerous prisoners held in it. So you might as well let this guy die outside, and save us from collecting the body!
Ward wondered if he should continue with the plan and let a helicopter come up and shoot at them, and a bitter ploy in his eyes triggered two so-called feelings of compassion before he could go in.
But before Ward could execute this plan, an incredible turn of events occurred in front of his eyes.
The elevator door behind the two guards suddenly opened, but what came out of it was not a person, but a large mass of poisonous snakes! It was really a big mass, I don't know how many poisonous snakes were entangled, forming a big snake pill that rolled out of it, and bit the two unsuspecting guards to death at once.
"Rena?" Ward was surprised to see the big snake pill slowly rise, and the poisonous snakes climbed on top of each other and piled up into a human form, it was the woman Rena who kidnapped Coulson in the first place.
Rena didn't answer, she stretched out her tongue and licked it lightly at the corner of her mouth, the golden snake pupils flashed in his eyes, she opened the door quite leisurely, walked in front of John Garrett, stuck out her tongue as if she was licking it in the air, and showed a playful smile "Hmm... This smell, the wound on your body is very interesting. ”
As she spoke, she tore John Garrett's clothes, ripped off the bandage covered in burn cream, and looked at the charred injury and smiled, "Hellfire, you're really out of luck." ”
"Do you know what's going on?" Ward didn't know what to do now, he didn't know if the woman in front of him was his own, and he didn't even know if she was human, but he felt that this woman shouldn't hurt his own people, otherwise there would be no need to say so much.
"Looks like you've got a pretty troublesome guy. Rena didn't even look at Ward, "But you're lucky to have run into me." After saying that, she stretched out her five fingers, but just as she was about to touch John Garrett, these five jade fingers suddenly turned into five tiny poisonous snakes, and before Ward could react, these poisonous snakes suddenly crawled onto Garrett's body, biting each other's tails and turning into a round tattoo to wrap the charred black wound.
After this, Garrett suddenly felt a sense of relief, and the burning pain that was torturing him was swept away, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "Oh, I'm fine!"
"Phew, what's good!" but Rena took a sip softly, "It's a wound from hellfire, and this way will never heal, I just sealed it away from your pain, but it still burns your life and soul, if you don't have any other way, you won't live long, clairvoyant." ”
"Do you know who I am?" Garrett was shocked, although Rena had done things for herself, it felt like she had never really met each other, not even in direct contact, the only conversation was over the phone, and she still used a voice changer, how could she know her identity?
But considering that she was able to transform into a group of poisonous snakes, and suppressed her wounds in such a strange way, these things seemed to be nothing surprising.